Well, ya just said the quiet part out loud, yer majesty ... this is exactly the ONLY way that CNN and MSNBC have managed to stay afloat for many, many years, now - they get subscription fees (for being part of the overall channel package) from MILLIONS of cable customers who NEVER tune in to their channels. Give cable customers a real choice of what they pay for and CNN & MSNBC would have died a long, long time ago.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence